Bill Conlin | Infamous denials through history

0 Comments | Philadelphia Daily News, January, 2008

WILLIAM JEFFERSON Clinton, then the president of these United States, looked unblinkingly into the jungle of TV cameras and said in a rock steady voice, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.''

Oh, Willie said later when trapped in the lie, that he meant, you know, the Biblical definition of sex - going all the way.

Celebrities, the rich and famous, Britney and Lindsay, heads of state, baseball MVPs and Cy Young Award winners are very different than you and me when 'fess up time comes around.

Their protestations of innocence resonate through history and will be high in their biographies.

Lee Harvey Oswald didn't live long enough after the assassination of JFK to say much more than that he had been set up as a "stool pigeon.''...